{"id":268628,"date":"2025-11-17T23:02:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-17T23:02:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/268628\/"},"modified":"2025-11-17T23:02:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-17T23:02:07","slug":"helldivers-2-boss-says-arc-raiders-ai-use-makes-gaming-better","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/268628\/","title":{"rendered":"Helldivers 2 Boss Says Arc Raiders\u2019 AI Use \u2018Makes Gaming Better\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

The CEO of the studio behind Helldivers 2<\/a>, the wildly successful third-person shooter that recently came to Xbox, weighed in on the video game industry\u2019s increasing use of AI and how he believes it \u201cactually makes gaming better.\u201d<\/p>\n

As reported by GamesRadar<\/a>, Arrowhead Game Studios CEO Shams Jorjani was on an episode of The Game Business Show<\/a> when the conversation shifted to the use of AI in game development. The host, Christopher Dring, brought up the \u201cindustry moment\u201d around Arc Raiders, the recently released extraction shooter that\u2019s been a breakout hit for developer Embark Studios, and the center of a conversation around using AI in game development.\u00a0<\/p>\n

For Jorjani, opinions on the controversial topic are too black and white. \u201cMaybe, could it be, that reality is somewhere in the middle? Could it be?\u201d he asked. He believes that, rather than developers using AI to \u201cremove the stuff we don\u2019t want to do,\u201d people jump to \u201clet\u2019s never actually use AI, all AI is bad AI.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWe don\u2019t put any AI in the games,\u201d Jorjani says. \u201cBut if it can allow me to do my receipts faster, that\u2019s more Helldivers for everyone.\u201d<\/p>\n

It was recently revealed that Embark hired voice actors for Arc Raiders<\/a>, then used AI to flesh out in-game voice lines rather than having \u201csomeone come in every time we create a new line for the game,\u201d according to an interview with PCGamesN<\/a>. This sparked a heated debate about the use of AI in game development and even negatively affected Eurogamer\u2019s review of the game<\/a> (which awarded it two out of five stars).\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cI find that people jump to extreme takes,\u201d Jorjani says of the response to Arc Raiders\u2019 AI use. \u201cI think it\u2019s a very interesting use case that actually makes gaming better.\u201d<\/p>\n

The AI game development controversy continues <\/p>\n

But as Dring brings up during the interview, Square Enix recently revealed it wants to eventually have 70 percent of its quality assurance work done by AI. QA work often serves as an entry-level role in game development, and this could be a huge hit to the industry\u2019s workforce, which is one of the main points of contention people have with implementing AI.<\/p>\n

Junghun Lee, the CEO of Nexton Co. Ltd (which published Arc Raiders), said in a November 12 interview<\/a> with Japanese gaming site Gamespark<\/a> that \u201cit\u2019s important to assume that every game company is now using AI.\u201d But with the video game industry plagued with layoffs and studio closures, what does that mean for the future of its workforce?<\/p>\n

The ideological split is only widening. Brendan Green, the creator of the wildly successful battle royale PUBG, told Eurogamer he was \u201creally heartened to see the community revolt against AI stuff.\u201d PUBG is published by South Korean company Krafton, which recently announced a massive \u201cAI-first\u201d mandate<\/a> for the entire company while also announcing the option for employees to voluntarily resign if they felt they were not in line with its \u201cdirection of change.\u201d<\/p>\n

Elsewhere, Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 publisher Activision recently came under fire for using AI-generated content<\/a> for some of its artwork. \u201cLike so many around the world, we use a variety of digital tools, including AI tools, to empower and support our teams to create the best gaming experiences possible for our players. Our creative process continues to be led by the talented individuals in our studios,\u201d Activision told Kotaku on November 14.<\/p>\n

AI in game development seems to be here to stay, but just how it will be utilized going forward, and how developers, voice actors, and players will feel about it, remains to be seen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The CEO of the studio behind Helldivers 2, the wildly successful third-person shooter that recently came to Xbox,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":268629,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[554,733,4308,86,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-268628","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-artificial-intelligence","8":"tag-ai","9":"tag-artificial-intelligence","10":"tag-artificialintelligence","11":"tag-technology","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom","14":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268628","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=268628"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268628\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/268629"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=268628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=268628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=268628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}